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Electricity, food and water are basic human needs and have been the main demands of the majority of Yemenis long before the revolution started and still continue to be so. Nothing seems to have changed with the overthrow of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and living conditions only seem to get worse under the new National Consensus Government. Most Yemenis are living in dire conditions due to the daily and long hours of electricity cuts that have been affecting most areas of Yemen, from the north to the south.

Yemeni netizens expressed their views about the electricity cuts via Twitter. Those outside Yemen wrote in solidarity while those in Yemen, including, students, journalists and visitors, vented their frustration.

To have a “picture” of how Yemenis used to live before the revolution and why they revolted, read this post by Sam Waddah. Not much has changed since, some Yemenis wonder, and others still hope, that change will happen.